Volunteers

Examples

• It was seen that the volunteers of the Mexican war largely composed the pioneers to settle up the Pacific coast country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was no call made when there were not more volunteers than were asked for. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The call was for 75,000 volunteers for ninety days' service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• All but two of the steamers were commanded by volunteers from the army, and all but one so manned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Volunteers were called for from the army, men who had had experience in any capacity in navigating the western rivers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Upton, 121st New York Volunteers; Colonel William McCandless, 2d Pennsylvania Reserves, to be Brigadier-Generals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The volunteers who followed were of better material, but without drill or discipline at the start. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It exists because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from people in all walks of life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A regiment of Kentucky volunteers guarded the mortars and howitzers engaged against Black Fort. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was promptly promoted to the grade of Major-General of Volunteers, and confirmed by the Senate. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His success there was most brilliant, and won for him the rank of brigadier-general in the regular army and of major-general of volunteers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That Ireland also began in its turn to organize National Volunteers and to smuggle arms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hicks, 40th Illinois Volunteers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It also brought them in contact with volunteers, many of whom served in the war of the rebellion afterwards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Smith, trapped up in semi-military style, toured Ulster, inspecting these volunteers and inflaming local passion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• General McCook himself belongs to a family which furnished many volunteers to the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The forlorn hoop was a body of men, usually volunteers, selected from different regiments, to lead an assault, enter a breach or perform some other service attended with uncommon peril. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The law required all volunteers to serve for three years or the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Two assaulting columns, two hundred and fifty men each, composed of volunteers for the occasion, were formed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The brigade commanded by General Riley was from its position the most conspicuous in the final assault, but all did well, volunteers and regulars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After the speaking was over volunteers were called for to form a company. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were so many more volunteers than had been called for that the question whom to accept was quite embarrassing to the governor, Richard Yates. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I then returned to the troops, and called for volunteers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The time was whiled away pleasantly enough at Matamoras, while we were waiting for volunteers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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